HTTP/2 server H2O hits version 2.0.0

The HTTP server H2O recently hit major milestone with version 2.0.0. The new release comes with new features and performance enhancements.

This lightweight and optimised HTTP/2 server has now been powering this site since June 2015. During this year the server has proved very reliable and running H2O as your main web server or as your HTTP/2 capable SSL offloader for Varnish is easy. Configuration format also remained the same between 1.7.x and 2.0.x versions, so upgrading was straightforward.

HTTP/2 is a new version of the protocol powering the World Wide Web. It was formally finalized in 2015 and since that both Apache and Nginx have received HTTP/2 support in their stable versions.

In the the past week the HTTP/2 capable version of Nginx came available for developers using Debian versions Jessie and Wheezy through Dotdeb: Nginx 1.10.1 for Jessie and Wheezy

H2O version 2.0.0 continues on the path for being the most feature complete HTTP/2 server around, with full support for features such as prioritized content serving and server push.

With minimal CPU utilization it promises faster time to first byte compared with previous generation web servers like Nginx and Apache.